Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway

Posted by blackZero on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:28PM
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Hi HN,

We work on a website and we need to send daily sms to our website's contacts.

My question is:

Is this what we call as a SMS Gateway Service?

If Yes, can you give me examples and the best known Sms Gateway Services.

If No, what is the name of my solution and from where i can start?

Thank you.

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by davismwfl on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:36PM (#8938287)

If you need to send SMS I highly suggest integrating Twilio to your site. Another one I have used is Nexmo. Either one can be integrated really pretty easily and only takes a short while. Plivo is another one I have heard about, but I know nothing about them.

You do not yourself need to be a SMS Gateway, in fact it is a royal pain, just use a quality service and integrate it. It does have a small nominal cost per SMS message, which you can see on each website.

Twilio provides libraries to integrate for common languages like node, Ruby, Java etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by blackZero on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:05PM (#8938392)

Yeah, i heard Twilio many times. I think we just go for it, Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by davismwfl on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:11PM (#8938406)

Your welcome. I really like Twilio, they are good to work with and their API is really pretty easy and only takes a small amount of effort to get setup. Good luck!

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by alir on Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:55AM (#8942252)

Depending on the load requirement, I have used NowSMS (nowsms.com) for some of my projects. NowSMS is pretty straight forward to use. For others, I wrote my own gateway using Smslib - that can be a pain though, depending on the phone you want to you.

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by johnpickens on Sunday January 25, 2015 @10:05AM (#8943058)

The TextBelt API may be useful - http://textbelt.com/ - it was made by a software engineer at Google.

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Re:Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway by blackZero on Sunday January 25, 2015 @04:45PM (#8944388)

Thanks i like it, too bad it doesn't support my country.

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